Selection of poetry worksheets and activities. Create a '‘Roses are red…’ rhyming poem (2 sheets) The Owl and the Pussycat. Order, identify nouns, verbs and adjectives and create new opening rhyme by changing some of the words worksheet (4 sheets) Selection of riddles for pupils to solve (1 sheet).

Read the CVC words. Cut out the ‘e’ and sad faces cards and place them face down on the table. Take turns to turn over a card. If you pick an ‘e’ put it next to one of the cvc words, read the new word and score a point. if you pick a sad face, it is the other player’s turn. Read your new list of words using the magic e.

Pupils learn to read cvc words by drawing what they see. One person is asked to choose a cvc word and show it to the class without looking at it themself. This person then covers their eyes and the pupils have one minute to draw the word that they read on the card on their whiteboards. After one minute, hold up the whiteboards and the chosen pupil has to guess what the cvc word was by looking at the pictures his classmates have drawn. Teacher can check all pupils have read the cvc word correctly by looking at their matching picture on the whiteboard. (Sorry about my pictures - I tried to draw them how I thought children would !)

Their, they’re and there cards with sentences on cards. The first set are colour coded so that they can sorted easily under the correct thier/they’re/there. You can the look at how the cards have been arranged and talk about why. they can copy the sentences in their book. When they become familiar with their usage, they can progress to using the black sheet which are not coloured for matching to see if they can complete without the coloured prompts.

Complete the sentences using the correct homophone with pictures added to support the pupil in learning the differences between the two spellings. Useful for SEN pupils who need visuals to support or for ESL who may benefit from seeing the pictures to help them to complete the sentences. Matching words activity also included.

Language covered: Classroom stationary 2D shapes Colours Instructions

Powerpoint containing 4 words per slide of the Year 2 spellings. Pupils look at the words on the whiteboard for 5 seconds. Pupils put their head down on the desk and teacher removes a word. Pupils write down the missing word and then check everyone has the correct word and spelling.

Wordsearches for each of the set 2 sounds.

An alternative Cinderella story ‘Singerella’. Slides features colour coded sections for pupils to edit and correct (adding synonyms, punctuation, conjunctions, fronted adverbials etc) and the ending is left open for pupils to conclude the story.

Coloured key words for snap and bingo games. Print out two copies of each and llaminate.

Simple instructions

Laminate the sentence cards and cut out. Pupils have to match the cards to the missing punctuation square in a SNAP/BINGO style manner until their board is full. Set 1 is matching colours - the pupils simple need to match the coloured sentence to the matching coloured punctuation mark. You can then reinforce why it is needed. The black and white is for higher ability groups whoa re able to work out the type of punctuation that is needed without colour coded help. After the pupils have matched the cards to the board they can write out the sentences adding the missing punctuation,